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First evidence for the occurrence of Unapertura (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anomopoda, Chydoridae) in North America based on subfossil remains

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We recovered subfossil chydorid cladoceran remains, which morphologically resemble the remains of Unapertura latens, from the surface sediments of two small lakes (TK-32, TK-18) located in the Central Arctic Treeline region, Northwest Territories, Canada. This species had previously been described only from lakes in Europe, primarily in southern Finland. We compared head shields and postabdomens from Canadian and Finnish sites and found them to be morphologically identical. The occurrence of Unapertura remains in North America suggests that this group of chydorids may be much more widely distributed than previously reported.

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We are grateful to Dr. Kathleen Rühland for making available the lake sediments examined in this study. Useful comments were provided by participants of the 7th Subfossil Cladoceran Workshop in Herzberg, Switzerland. Funding for this research was provided by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to John Smol (Queen’s University), a Canadian Northern Studies Training grant and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. The Finnish contribution is part of the EPHIPPIUM Project (1107062) funded by the Academy of Finland.

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    Jon N. Sweetman

  2. Department of Geology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen

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Sweetman, J.N., Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. First evidence for the occurrence of Unapertura (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anomopoda, Chydoridae) in North America based on subfossil remains. J Paleolimnol 58, 291–297 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-017-9978-7

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